Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
NORN PHRASES AND VOCABULARY
aak
guillemot
moorit
brown
alan
storm petrel
mootie
tiny
ayre
beach
muckle
large
bister
farm
noost
hollow place where a
böd
fisherman's store
boat is drawn up
bonxie
great skua
norie (or tammie-norie)
pu
n
bruck
rubbish
noup
steep headland
burra
heath rush
peerie/peedie
small
crö
sheepfold
plantiecrub
small dry-stone enclosure
eela
rod-fishing from
(or plantiecrö)
for growing cabbages
small boats
quoy
enclosed, cultivated
common land
ferrylouper
incomer (Orkney)
fourareen
four-oared boat
roost
tide race
scattald
common grazing land
foy
party or festival
geo
coastal inlet
scord
gap or pass in a ridge
of hills
gloup
blowhole, behind a cliff
face, where spray is
setter
farm
shaela
dark grey
blasted out from the
cave below (from Old
simmer dim
summer twilight
sixern/sixareen
six-oared boat
Norse glup, a throat)
haa
laird's house
solan
gannet
soothmoother
incomer (Shetland)
haaf
deep-sea fishing. Lit.
“heave” (Shetland)
udal
Norse law designating
land as a freehold
hap
hand-knitted shawl
howe
mound
without any charter or
feudal-type arrangement
kame
ridge of hills
kishie
basket
voe
sea inlet
yoal
rowing boat used for
maa
seagull
mool
headland
fishing (Shetland)
